With business booming under Trump, private prison giant gathers at president's resort

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Source: Washington Post

With business booming under Trump, private prison giant gathers at president’s resort

By Amy Brittain and Drew Harwell October 25 at 3:03 PM

DORAL, Fla. — In recent years, the private prison company GEO Group has held its annual leadership conference at venues near its Boca Raton headquarters. But this year, the company moved its gathering to a Miami-area golf resort owned by President Trump.

The event last week, during which executives and wardens gathered for four days of meetings, dinner receptions and golf outings at the luxurious 800-acre Trump National Doral, followed an intense effort by GEO Group to align itself with the president and his administration.

During last year’s election, a company subsidiary gave $225,000 to a pro-Trump super PAC. GEO gave an additional $250,000 to the president’s inaugural committee. It also hired as outside lobbyists a major Trump fundraiser and two former aides to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, one of the president’s most prominent campaign backers.

GEO Group, meanwhile, has had newfound success in Trump’s Washington. ... The company secured the administration’s first contract for an immigration-detention center, a deal worth tens of millions a year. And its stock price has tripled since hitting a low last year when the Obama administration sought to phase out the use of private prisons — a decision that Sessions reversed.



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Anu Narayanswamy, Matt Zapotosky, Jack Gillum and Alice Crites contributed to this report.

Amy Brittain is a reporter for The Post's investigative team. Follow @amyjbrittain

Drew Harwell is a national business reporter at The Washington Post. Follow @drewharwell

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/with-business-booming-under-trump-private-prison-giant-gathers-at-presidents-resort/2017/10/25/b281d32c-adee-11e7-a908-a3470754bbb9_story.html

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Another sign of the shift we've seen in @realDonaldTrump's businesses. As he loses old, apolitical clients, he gains clients who want something from govt.

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NEW: With business booming under Trump, private prison giant gathers at his resort, via @amyjbrittain @drewharwell

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[SpankMe]

1. I wonder which base pairs are indicators of liberalism and open-mindedness?

You can bet Trump Republicans are already looking to buy the technology to eliminate base pairs that lead to liberalism and "thinking" so they can create a super-race of right-wing nut-fucks.

[C Moon]

2. I think you posted under the wrong article. :)

[C Moon]

3. I wonder what percentage of prisoners are marijuana related.

I would imagine these private run prisons don't like the idea of states legalizing marijuana.
I wouldn't be surprised if that's one of the topics discussed between the two (who should be behind those bars).
Either way, it's scary that a dictator-leaning person like Trump is meeting with leaders of private prisons.

[SergeStorms]

9. Bingo!

And probably the real reason behind Sessions still wanting to go after pot smokers. He doesn't recognize the State's right to legalize medical or recreational marijuana usage. We simply must lock up more non-violent, minority pot smokers. It serves at least two purposes; it thins the Democratic voting rolls, and let's the private prison industry play 'supermarket sweep' in the U.S. Treasury, which means more bribes......er....campaign contributions to the Republican party. So that's three reasons right there, and I'm sure there are many more that GOP has up their sleeves.

[muntrv]

4. If I am correct, prisoners escape from private prisons more often than state and federal ones.

On edit:https://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/09/12255/violence-abuse-and-death-profit-prisons-geo-group-rap-sheet

[n2doc]

5. it's not a bug, it's a feature

Escapees sew fear among the populace, who demand yet more and harsher punishments, thus increasing number of prisoners.

[n2doc]

6. How swampy of them. n/t

[riversedge]

7. So disgusting to read this.

[crazycatlady]

8. The only thing I want the private prison industry doing

Is making sure there's cells available for Trump and his accomplices.